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Take an early trip to San Diego to check out some Shelf Porn

Happy Saturday and welcome to another edition of Shelf Porn, where fans show off their collections. Today’s shelves come from Pat Loika, an artist and podcaster out of San Diego, who shows us his books, statues, original art and more. No doubt Pat will be adding to it in a couple of weeks at Comic-Con.

And now let’s hear from Pat …

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Hey everyone, Pat Loika here. I host the Loikamania podcast, and I’ve been a comic fan all my life. While I’ve written and drawn comics through the years, I still love collecting them. So here’s a look at my collection.

I’ve actually started cutting down my collecting of paper books and have been an avid digital reader. The books I truly love are the ones I end up using to fill the bookcases.

Once you enter, the first thing you’ll see by the door is some art. Up here is a Terry Dodson Emma Frost, Wolverine & The X-Men page by David Lopez and a Winter Soldier by Mitch Gerads. Yes, that’s a Katana.

The first shelves. To the far right, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Humanoids and other oversized hardcovers. In the middle, DC hardcovers. Absolutes are in the bottom shelves. On the hanging shelf are Emma Frost and Psylocke statues from Sideshow, and a Bowen Designs Thor by the PS3. Some art by Dave Stokes and Jeremy Haun accompany the statues, with a Terry Dodson print in the middle.

Then we have three bookcases of Marvel hardcovers (except for the bottom shelf on the last one). We have some Bowen designs statues and some Hot Toys figures above, as well as some art by John Paul Leon and Chris Samnee. Yes. That is an Infinity Gauntlet.

The little shelf is full of DC softcovers, the tall shelf has Wildstorm, Image, Vertigo, Oni and other softcovers. The mini-cabinet has more thick books, guarded by a Hot Toys Batman figure.

Above, are some John Paul Leon pieces.

We pull back to reveal another tall shelf. It has New 52 and Vertigo hardcovers, more softcover trades, and art books, including a number of Artist Editions from IDW.

To the left, another hardcover shelf with Dark Horse, Image, Dynamite, IDW and other publishers. Next to that, a shelf of Marvel softcover trades. On the hanging shelves are more Bowen statues, and lots of art. There’s a Chris Samnee piece up there, as well as pieces by Steve Epting, Matteo Scalera and Tony Moore. Also on display are my Avengers Hot Toys figures.

We pull back, and you see my drawing/work table. There are more pieces of art, including pages by Ramon Perez, Michael Lark, Alex Maleev and Olivier Coipel. More Hot Toys and Sideshow figures are above, and more Bowen statues.

We close out by zooming in on the Avengers Hot Toys figures. As you can see, the Hulk is running late.

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Marius

Wow! Having that many statues that high above the ground, on such a small board takes guts! But then again, your girlfriend might not run into walls and shelfes like mine, so maybe they are safe there. My girl decimated my Black and White Batman collection from 7 statues to 2 in the 3 years we are together. (She bought me a lifesize replica of the dark knight cowl and a few 1/6 koto statues to make up for it though)

What I wanted to say, man… Great collection. More of a Marvel guy, it seems, but apart from that WOWEEEE!!!